In the past few days I've had to seriously rummage through the dusty boxes in the internet's attic to find anything whatsoever about my soon to be new home, 村上市 (
Murakami-shi!). Thankfully, through the power of technology!, I've managed to find a decent amount of information so that I don't feel like I'm going into the complete unknown.
First! Let's look at some maps!
See, here's Japan:
All right. So what's this mean for me? Welp, take a look at this thing right here:
Ooookay. So I'm not exactly close to any of the major cities, but here is what I AM close to!
Okay, so that's all pretty sweet. I'm actually one prefecture north of Nagano, site of the 1998 Winter Games, which means I'll get to go snowboarding all the freaking time. There's also, like, 60 some odd ski resorts in my prefecture alone, so the real question is how much should I put away for some gear when I get to Japan?
Also, it turns out my city has it's own Wikipedia page! Who knew? Wikipedia has a little bit on everything. It turns out that my city is the northernmost point in Japan where they still grow tea, AND it's a fishing city which means fresh sushi for yours truly!
All in all, I'm getting pretty excited about all this. I just need to buy myself some thermal underwear so I don't freeze to death.
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